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We're now starting to plan our North American Users' Meeting. This meeting will be hosted over two days on the 18th and 19th October, prior to the 65th AVS International Symposium and Exhibition, the following week. The first day will be held at the Marriott, Long Beach, with the second day at UC Irvine where we have an AXIS Supra that will be available for demos and workshops.

In a new applications note generated in collaboration with Lancaster University we demonstrate the quantification of layer composition in compound semiconductors of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSELs). XPS and Ar gas cluster sputter depth profiling has been used to determine the composition of the GaAs / AlxGa1-xAs layers.

Kratos Analytical have played a pivotal role in developing the 2nd generation EUV exposure and in-situ surface analysis facility at TNO. Kratos have installed and commissioned an AXIS Nova with modified sample handling to interface with the automated reticule sample handling system. The AXIS Nova is used for XPS surface of large EUV masks and pellicles including defect mapping functionality.

A Google Scholar search for "Kratos AXIS" shows that there have been over 15,300 for the 20 year period of 1996 - 2016 or 760 publications per year. This landmark number of publications demonstrates the breadth and depth of research undertaken using Kratos' instruments.

The North American Users Meeting was hosted on the US west coast at UC Irvine. Attended by over 30 Kratos Users and 5 Kratos applications, support and sales staff the meeting was an excellent opportunity for the attendees to present research conducted with Kratos instruments. Here we review the meeting.

A recent publication in Energy & Environmental Science, titled Performance, morphology and photophysics of high open-circuit voltage, low band gap all polymer solar cells demonstrates the characterisation of complex polymer devices with a number of techniques including sputter depth profiling using Kratos' gas cluster ion source.

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We're now starting to plan our North American Users' Meeting. This meeting will be hosted over two days on the 18th and 19th October, prior to the 65th AVS International Symposium and Exhibition, the following week. The first day will be held at the Marriott, Long Beach, with the second day at UC Irvine where we have an AXIS Supra that will be available for demos and workshops.